SUMMARY:

• Business - focused, customer & service minded professional with 5+ years of experience
• Profound knowledge of SAP Finance (FICO) including configuration of Enterprise Structure, GL, AR, AP, Asset Accounting & Integration related to Material Management and Sales Distribution
• Excels in liaising with clients to, gauge their requirements, suggest appropriate solutions and achieve successful conversion of business opportunities into profitable deals
• Innovative & creative, with a concise, precise and effective approach to problem solving and ability to develop, deliver and evaluate brilliant insight founded on rock-solid strategic thinking
• Credible & articulate, with exceptional communication, presentation & interpersonal skills; enthusiastic and driven, with an overall passion for excellence
• An effective communicator with exceptional analytical, technical, negotiation and client relationship management skills with ability to relate to people at any level of business and management
• Excellent Interpersonal Skills, Presentation and Report Generation Skills, Good Communication Skills, team work, adaptive and quick learner to new Technologies.

SAP FICO EXPERTISE:

• Configuration of GL, creating chart of accounts, account groups, master records, number ranges, etc.
• Clearing Open Items, GR/IR clearing account analysis, receivables/payables regrouping, reconciliation of prior year to New Year and other adjustment postings, Month/Annual Closing activities, G/L postings to check system functionality, opening & closing of posting periods
• Customized Special G/L configuration like down payments and transactions
• Balance Sheet & P & L reports, reports of actual / plans and other reports
• Configuration to create master records, account groups, field status, dunning procedures, interest calculation, etc.
• Balance confirmations for receivables, Customer invoices and Credit Memos, process recurring entries and incoming payments, settings for cash discounts, running periodic processing programs i.e. Dunning, Interest calculation etc.
• Configuration of account groups and other master record settings, field status, setting up of Automatic Payment Program (APP), etc.
• Balance confirmations for payables, vendor invoices, debit memos, clearing, processing of outgoing payments, settings for cash discounts, running periodic processing programs
• Configuration of chart of depreciation, depreciation areas, asset class, depreciation key and integration with GL
• Creation of assets and posting of depreciation
• Processing special G/L transactions, advance payments & receipts, noted items, configuration of cash journal, etc.
• Conversant with Accelerated SAP Methodology (ASAP) with experience in all phases including Project Preparation, Business Blueprinting, Realization, Final Preparation and GO-Live
• Profound knowledge of GAAP/IFRS guidelines and Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) compliance
• Skilled in handling configurations for FI - General Ledger (GL), Accounts Receivable/Payable (AR/AP), Asset Accounting (AA) &CO - Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Cost Elements, Substitutions and Validations
• Expert in defining SAP landscape server system, AUC (Assets Under Construction), Procure-to-pay (PTP) process and Logistics Invoice Verification

CORE STRENGTHS:

SAP FI CO

ASAP Methodology

GAAP / IFRS Guidelines

SOX Compliance

GL, AR, AP & AA

SAP Project Implementation

Project Roll-out & Support

Business Process Mapping

Process Management

SAP System Analysis

Relationship Management

MIS Reporting

SAP Configuration

Database Management / Maintenance

Process Documentation

Customer Service

Strategic Planning & Execution

Resource Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS Platforms: Windows Platform, Linux, UNIX Workstation

Software Skills: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Adobe

Testing Tools: HPQC,MQC,QTP, IBM’s solutions work bench

Databases: Oracle, Excel, Access

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAP - FICO Functional Consultant

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Environment: ECC 6.0 SAP

Responsibilities:

• Implement, customize, configure, integrate, test, prepare documents, train users and provide production support in SAP-FICO; configure GL, AR/AP, AA, PCA, PCA and CCA
• Involve in full life cycle implementation of the project including Project Preparation, Business Blueprinting, Realization, Final Preparation and Go-Live
• Create & assign company code to different accounts and tolerance groups for AP, purchasing, goods receipt and invoice receipt
• Define GL accounts, Asset accounts, Cost and Profit Center Accounts and Primary & Secondary cost elements
• Assign GL Accounts to cost center groups and profit centers for customer invoices
• Involve in LIV- logistics invoice verification, 3-way match against POs, goods receipt and invoice receipt
• Design, configure and test Procure-to-pay (PTP) process
• Create and post vendor & customer invoices, credit memos, house banks and bank accounts, automatic payment runs, post incoming and outgoing payments
• Outline payment terms for vendors & customers and set up rules & terms for substitutions and validations
• Plan strategies, benchmark performance standards and ensure compliance to good practices, safety & offer prompt services
• Mentor and motivate the team in achieving / exceeding targets set ensuring consistent quality deliverables and utmost client satisfaction
• Document the 'TO-BE'processes, define performance metrics, identify & resolve process gaps and map business processes to SAP
• Ensure all business processes are configured efficiently in the SAP FICO environment and all functionality offered is utilized to make projects successful
• Guided end users on creation of Vendor & Customer and General ledger
• Transferred Journal entry from client legacy system data to SAP

Development, Rollout and Support

Confidential, Carlsbad, CA

Environment: ECC 6.0 SAP

Responsibilities:

• Involved in SAP system study, changing configuration & re-developing the system as per client requirement and submitting the study report
• Gathered & collected information from clients and prepared roll-out documents
• Printed customer & vendor statements from SAP and compared balance of the same with client’s systems
• Created GL, prepared balance sheet in SAP and uploaded opening balance in SAP including master data for customers and vendors
• Created and prepared documents & training user manuals for end user training; analyzed and resolved end users’ daily issues
• Configure vendor & customer account groups and master data in FI, number range in posting key and document types; create dunning program with dunning levels and Automatic payment program
• Define Cost Center Hierarchy, activity types, statistical key figures and reconciliation ledgers
• Collect information about business requirements and raw data and configure enterprise structure accordingly
• Create company code, fiscal year variants, posting periods, filed status groups, document number ranges, GL accounts, customers & vendors, number ranges and tolerance groups for vendors
• Worked with month-end closing, year-end closing and financial reports with report painter/writer

SAP - FICO Consultant

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Environment: ECC 6.0 SAP, ASAP Methodology

Responsibilities:

• Prepared the AS-IS document as per information received from the core team members as well as business blue print document
• Customized the Enterprise Structure and configured organizational structures, copy company code chart of accounts/L master data and filed status groups
• Involved in fiscal year variants, posting periods, documenting number ranges, creating document types and posting keys
• Defined chart of account & GLs along with preparing cash journals and configuring master data as per client’s requirements
• Configured vendor & customer account groups and master data in FI, number range in posting key and document types, creation of dunning program with dunning levels and Automatic payment program
• Prepare balance sheet in SAP and upload opening balance in SAP including master data for customers and vendors
• Create and prepare documents & training user manuals for end user training; analyze and resolve end users’ daily issues
• Customize the Enterprise Structure and configure organizational structures, copy company code chart of accounts/L master data and file status groups